Fondueabend mit einander!

December 19, 1992, I landed in Salt Lake City after 18 months of service in the Zürich, Switzerland Mission.  Forward to December 19, 2012 where I gathered for the 18th time with returned missionaries and their families for a night of rich and creamy cheese fondue.  My children have grown up with this tradition and I have been able to keep in contact with special people from some extraordinary days as a missionary.

We met at Deniece's home in Lindon.  Here is a receipt from only ONE of the 3 cheeses purchased for the fondue:

 Taylor was so excited for the meal!  I brought Mac & Cheese for Austin (of course).  

Little stinker!

Mahlzeit!

Merry Christmas Deerfield Elementary!

 We love the annual Christmas program at Deerfield.  This year, we had three of our children participating (it will happen only one other time for us to have 3 elementary kids in the school).  The songs were awesome and our children sang beautifully.  I love how happy each one of them looked as well.  Included are some other pictures of our neighborhood friends!

Christmas Cookies at FHE

 We invited Poppie and Grandma Barbie over for FHE and to make some Christmas cookies.  Wonderful Grandma brought the cookies (which saved this running-mom a LOT of time:  thanks!) and I took care of the frosting and cookie decor.  We ate dinner, had a lesson for FHE and then headed to the kitchen for cookie decorating.  It was fun.  The kids are getting so creative too!

Hatch Family Christmas Party 2012

 It was the GREATEST time!  I look forward to this party every year because we, as siblings and cousins, know how to have FUN and simply LOVE each other!  At our annual Hatch Christmas party, there is laughter, memory sharing and the cousins just play and play without fighting.  We missed the NV and AZ family terribly but maybe next year we can all be together.

Gift Exchange for the adults
The coconut bra was the favorite this year.

Thanks for the good times, Hatch Family!

My favorite Actor: Carson!

A few weekends ago, we went to watch Carson debut in Tarzan as one of the apes.  He was adorable....and a great actor as well!  The play was so incredibly well-done and the kids were completely engaged in the story.  Carson was completely convincing as an ape---I might even be a little scared of him picking lice off of me and eating them! :)

 Let the show begin!